little lessons

From an e-mail I received today . . .  each could be used for a lesson in an LRW course. Well, maybe the first one should remain a temptation only.

ON PUBLISHING OR PERISHING     I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University

ON PROBLEM SOLVING     When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. -- Abraham Maslow

ON MATERIALISM     He who dies with the most toys, is, nonetheless, still dead.

(njs)